Boy do I have some stories from my time at school.
Yelled at and written up for wearing my lunchbox as a hat when I was 5 years old
In middle school, one of the teachers habitually screamed at her students so loudly that you could hear her from adjacent rooms
Written up for touching a paper cutter. Not using it, not even moving the arm, but just resting my hand against it.
Humiliated in front of a class for saying that separation of Church and State meant that America wasn’t a Christian nation
A history teacher who had an open and explicit policy of grading football players more leniently
Recurrent substitute science teacher who pushed young-earth creationism and said I couldn’t be an atheist because I was a nice kid
A playground aide who had a habit of saying “don’t come to me unless you’re bleeding” and yelled at my brother for coming to her when he was bleeding
So much capitalist indoctrination I don’t even know where to begin
I had some good teachers growing up, but they were definitely the exception. By no means does the profession belong in the “inherently illegitimate” category with CEOs and landlords, but I fully believe that under capitalism, it’s an indoctrination and enforcement arm of the bourgeois.
Lol wtf, that sounds like treating football players like Americans do their mercenaries. They fucking honor the football team too? Do they get discounts and line cuts??
you don’t even know the half of it man, coaches and college recruiters will take football players out to restaurants, hook them up with girls, hell multiple investigations caught athletic staff buying cars for players. Especially in the southern united states, high school and college football is a state religion
To play devil’s advocate the south is just shitty like that and maybe having them rally around sports is the most benign option.
Short of dramatic overhauls, of course. But that takes time and money and this is the United States where time is just used to measure how long until the Rapture happens and money is for cops and military.
So again, distracting the confederates with football might be the least worst we get.
Boy do I have some stories from my time at school.
I had some good teachers growing up, but they were definitely the exception. By no means does the profession belong in the “inherently illegitimate” category with CEOs and landlords, but I fully believe that under capitalism, it’s an indoctrination and enforcement arm of the bourgeois.
Lol wtf, that sounds like treating football players like Americans do their mercenaries. They fucking honor the football team too? Do they get discounts and line cuts??
you don’t even know the half of it man, coaches and college recruiters will take football players out to restaurants, hook them up with girls, hell multiple investigations caught athletic staff buying cars for players. Especially in the southern united states, high school and college football is a state religion
To play devil’s advocate the south is just shitty like that and maybe having them rally around sports is the most benign option.
Short of dramatic overhauls, of course. But that takes time and money and this is the United States where time is just used to measure how long until the Rapture happens and money is for cops and military.
So again, distracting the confederates with football might be the least worst we get.
Pep rallies are mandatory events where they corral all the students into the gym to make them clap and cheer for the football team.